The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBBIE AND
BOBBIE.
BY MRS. A. M. DIAZ.

A small boy named Robbie had q small
cousin named Bobbie, and one afternoon
Bobbie went to visit Robbie, Robbie's
mother said they might play ont doors.
After running far along the road gath
ering dandelions by the wayside, they
saw near a stone wall four nice little
heaps of earth, smoothed and patted.
They wished to know what was inside,
and got sticks to dig with; but no SOON
or had they begun to dig than they heard
shout:
"Hallo, therel Hallor'
They turned and saw man coming
from house some way back from the
road, shaking his fist at them.
"Of with you'll Of, say Something
planted"
This mans wife had planted there
some seeds of the California Galloping
cucumber, hoping that the vines might
come up and cover the wall.
The small cousins we're afraid of the
man, and they dropped their sticks and
ran, and ran, and ran, and presently
they came to some boys a size larger
than themselves, sitting on bank, whit
thing out chip boats. At the same mo-
ment a boy two sizes larger than these
boys, passed by and said as he passed
"Why don't you all go and get some
molasses sugar?"
"Where! Wherel WhereT they shout
ed after him.
"Don't you know that Mr.. Pope has
set an empty molasses hogshead out
doors"
mol Mol Mol Nor they cried, spring
ing up.
run quick' cried the boy two sizes
larger. you'll get some."
They all ran to Mr.. Pope's store, the
two small cousins coming last, and got
chips to scrape with, and they took turns
creeping into the hogshead, two at time,
to scrape off the molasses sugar. Robbie
and Bobbie went in together. Every
two boys stayed in while the others
counted forty aloud.
Before the sugar was wholly scraped
off, Mr.. Pope's man drove up with a
horse and cart to take the hogshesd away
to man who was going to place it at a
corner of his house for catching rain
water.
AS Mr.. Pope's man drove away with
the hogshead, an old peddler passed by
on his way to the next town, dragging a
hsnd-cart in which were tir-ware, wood
enware, small brooms and essences. A
bad boy named Joe followed the peddler,
laughing and making fun of him, and
then the other boys did the same. The
poor old peddler looked at them in a sor-
rowful way, but said not a word. Seeing
this, one of them cried out to the rest:
81 say, let's help him! let's give him a
pushi"
"All right said the others; and then
three or four pushed the cart, while three
or four more went in front and helped
pull Joe was one of the pushers. AS
Robbie and Bobbie could not get their
hands on the cart, they pushed the push
ers; and presently they saw that while
Joe made believe push, he leaned upon
the cart and lifted his feet off the ground,
and they called out:
'Joe is only making believe push! he
keeps getting ride"
Then the other boys cried, "Shamel
Shame!" and hustled Joe off the cart,
and he ran away, and as he ran they
shouted, "Shirkerl Shirkerr then turned
and kept on with the peddler.
Presently Joe came up behind and
threw Robbie and Bobbie down in the
sand, and ran away again. They cried,
and the other boys stopped, and the old
peddler stopped; and the old peddler
looked long time in his cart, and at last
he took out from pastebosrd box two
very small glass walls Of essence OF pepper
mint, and said it would be good to put
on their handkerchiets, and wrapped a